Toy gun



G. W. H.

(No Model.)

TOY

Patented Sept. 3, 1889.

wlw-N555 E5 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE IV. NASH, OF CHELSEA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO E. N. HUNT, OF READING, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOY GUN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,434, dated September 3, 1889.

Application led January 22, 1889. Serial No. 297,119. (No model.)

To all wwnt it may concern.'

Be it known that I, 'GEORGE W. NASH, of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Guns, of which the following is a specification.

This 4invention relates to toy guns in which a slide or carrier is moved along a grooved stock by the contraction of a spring secured to said carrier and to the outer end of the stock, the spring being stretched by the retraction or backward movement of the carrier on the stock, so that when the carrier is released by the disengagement of a trigger therefrom the spring, in contracting, will force the carrier forward along the grooved stock, the motion of the carrier being arrested by a suitable stop at or near the outer end of the stock.

Heretofore in toy guns of this class the carrier has been used to impel a dart or other projectile placed on the grooved stock in front of the. carrier. My invention has for its 0bject to enable the carrier to explode a percussion cap or disk when its forward movement is arrested by its stop; and to this end the invention consists in a carrier provided with a cavity or chamber to hold a cap, and a loose hammer which has an independent longitudi- .nal movement in the carrier and is caused by the momentum it acquires du ring the forward movement of the carrier to strike and explode the cap when the forward movement of the carrier is abruptly arrested by its stop, as I will now proceed to describe.

Of the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a top view of aitoy gun having my improved carrier. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal section of the same.

The same letters designate the same parts or features in all the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, a represents the stock or body of the gun, which is usually made of wood, the upper side of the portion representing the barrel being grooved longitudinally.

b represents the carrier, which is preferably f of cylindrical form, and is connected by a spring or springs c, of rubber or other suitable material, with the outer portion of the stock, and is provided with a notch d, to engage with the trigger @,which is pivoted in a slot in the stock.

Vhen the carrier is pulled back, it is caught and held by the trigger until the latter is pulled, whereupon the spring throws the carrier forward until the rear ends of the spring, 5 5

which are attached to the carrier, reach blocks t' in the sides of the stock. The springs pass under said blocks, which act as stops to arrest the forward movement of the carrier.

In carrying out my invention I form a lon- 6o gitudinal chamber or cavity 7o in the carrier and place therein a metal hammer m, which is shorter than the cavity and is adapted to move endwise therein. A notch or opening o is cut through the top of the carrier at the forward end of the cavity k, said opening being provided to enable percussion paper caps to be placed against the forward end of the cavity, where I prefer to place a metallic anvil r, the same being here shown as the head 7o ment of the trigger, the momentum of the 8o hammer will cause it to strike the cap and explode it.

It will be seen that when the cap is eX- ploded the carrier is at the outer end of the stock, so that the cap is so far removed from the face of the holder of the gun that its eX- plosion cannot produce any bad results, such as are frequently experienced when toy caps are exploded in ordinary toy pistols.

The front end of the carrier is preferably 9o concaved, to enable the carrier to propel a dart or other projectile, as usual.

I claim- 1. In a toy gun of the class described, the

combination of the stock, the spring-impelled carrier supported by the stock and having a longitudinal cavity and a cap-supporting anvil, and a hammer sliding loosely longitudinally in said cavity, and a stop to arrest said carrier on its forward throw, substantially as roo and for the purpose specified.

2. In a toy gun, the combination of the stock,

the carrier having a cap-supporting anvil, the to this specification, in the presence of two subimpellinglsprng connecting' the Carrier with Selibing Witnesses, this 11th day of January, the stock, L stop o1' stops on the stockgvhere- A. D. 1889. by the carrier is arrested, and L loose ham- GEORGE NV. NASH.

5 mer 'located in a cavity in the carrier,- as set Vitnesses:

forth. C. F. BROWN,

In testimonvwhereof I have signed mv name l WV. C. RAMSAY. 

